In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: don't allow datadir only
In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data
layer, but there's no current use case for this.
Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,
only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling
this case, resulting in an Oops.
Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
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Fri, 09 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000
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Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: don't allow datadir only In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir. | |
Title | ovl: don't allow datadir only | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2025-05-09T06:43:54.250Z
Updated: 2025-05-09T06:43:54.250Z
Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:23.958Z
Link: CVE-2025-37863

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Status : Received
Published: 2025-05-09T07:16:07.317
Modified: 2025-05-09T07:16:07.317
Link: CVE-2025-37863

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